Example sentences of "war [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 2 | Of all the multiplicity of middle-class organizations which arose as a response to the dislocation of war and the perceived threat of socialism in Great Britain , the distinguishing feature of the Britons Society was its crude and obsessional anti-semitism . |
| 3 | They had three daughters , but he never saw his third daughter ; she was born in Canada after the upheavals of the civil war and the Japanese invasion of China had persuaded Liddell to send his pregnant wife and young children to safety in 1941 . |
| 4 | This coincided with the intensification of the pro-natalist campaign , but was probably due to the soldiers returning at the end of the Abyssinian war and the resultant rise in the number of marriages . |
| 5 | But the reduction of Federal expenditure , together with the end of the Korean War and the resultant drop in military spending , led to a recession in 1953 , with a rise in unemployment . |
| 6 | Beliefs associated with the sacredness of human life : It is suggested that Christian and humanist beliefs be chosen ( except if the issue of war is being studied , in which case it would be appropriate to consider the Christian view of a just war and the Islamic concept of holy war , or Jihad ) . |
| 7 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 8 | Once again , however , Communist inability to consolidate this position can be attributed to a combination of swift and effective repression of Communism in Latin America ( partly a response to their increased support , partly due to the onset of the Cold War and the pro-US orientation of most Latin American regimes in the late 1940s and 1950s ) and failures in tactics by the parties . |
| 9 | And of course after the Second World War and the comparative austerity of the 1940s , having fun seemed natural enough , and justifying having fun is what hedonistic philosophy is for . |
| 10 | To Pétain , for whom the future seemed to hold nothing but the obscurity of a colonel in retirement , the war and the dramatic failure of Plan XVII brought an unexpected opportunity to prove his ideas . |
| 11 | Politicians , diplomats , aid workers and journalists of almost every nationality have all been dragged into the confusion and misery that are the aftermath of the Vietnam war and the American bombing of Cambodia . |
| 12 | This bugles-and-banners stridency , drowning out the elegant salon music of pre-war Europe 's Indian summer , culminated inexorably in the Great War and the subsequent rise of Fascist dictatorships . |
| 13 | The growth in knowledge of organic chemistry after the Second World War and the subsequent introduction of chemical nitrates , pesticides and hormones to promote intensive farming both of land and livestock has led to immense environmental difficulties . |
| 14 | The consequences for English studies of the reassessment of liberal humanism in the light of the experience of war and the subsequent emergence of the " affluent society " , and popular and youth cultures , is perhaps best examined through George Steiner 's " after Auschwitz " thesis . |
| 15 | In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the ending of the Cold War and the subsequent loss of central government authority have generated support for the claims of ethno-cultural nationalist movements . |
| 16 | After the publication of the first edition of UDC in 1905 , the 191–1918 War and the unfavourable climate after that war led to the demise of the index , but UDC continued . |
| 17 | While the others seemed still obsessed with the catastrophe of 1870 , Pétain was assiduously and pragmatically studying more recent campaigns such as the Boer War and the RussoJapanese War of 1905 , where the defence had given so good an account of itself . |
| 18 | On the one hand there is the novel 's plot , the menace of the Civil War and the perfumed décor of the Southern plantations — an ebullient world , full of personalities and their passions , balls and duels , a world which senses its looming destruction and rejects it . |
| 19 | In the spring of 1983 , with the public mood changed by the Falklands War and the fragmented nature of the Alliance already evident , the threat from the new party was manifestly beginning to wane . |
| 20 | The November unrest , against a background of continuing civil war and the growing threat of famine , involved strike action , notably by railway workers , and protests at Khartoum university . |
| 21 | However , after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and the steep rise in oil prices , inflation as well as private consumption began to soar , and from 1976 foreign aid began to fall . |
| 22 | The blackout extended to news of the war and the German advance on Paris ; newspapers suspended publication temporarily and crowds gathered round the official bulletins pasted on the walls as rumour raced round the city . |
| 23 | , writes : BETWEEN the outbreak of war and the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries , could ordinary people still go there for holidays if they liked ? |
| 24 | War and the resulting expansion of the army , together with the military traditions of the Scottish gentry , invariably , however , brought a flood of Scottish officers into the army , in spite of the poverty of many of them , and that in turn provided politicians with the necessary connections with a useful way of winning friends cheaply . |
| 25 | It was undermined by civil war and the ensuing involvement of the Great Powers . |